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Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin’s Bones
Airdate: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 from 10-11 pm on PBS
Featured Interviews
Dr. Marcia Balisciano
Director, Benjamin Franklin House. Expert on the life of Benjamin Franklin.
Dr. Simon Chaplin
Head of the Wellcome Library. Expert on bodysnatching and anatomists.
Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris
Medical historian and an expert on 18th Century medicine and surgery.
Melissa Hewson
Medical Student and descendant of William Hewson. Expert on William Hewson’s
life and works.
Keith Moore
Librarian of the Royal Society
Discusses William Hewson and Benjamin Franklin’s membership of the Royal
Society and their contributions to the science of the time.
James O’Connell
Retired Detective Inspector – New Scotland Yard.
Senior police officer called to the scene after the discovery of the Craven Street
bones.
Professor Simon Hillson
Professor of Bio-archaeology – University College London
Senior archaeologist who investigated the Craven Street bones.
Dr. Paul Knapman
Her Majesty’s Coroner for London Borough of Westminster (retired).
Called to investigate the scene after the discovery of the bones.
Dr. John Troyer
Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath. Expert in death and society.
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